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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
ss closed in, and the enemy, seeing Col. Trigg's Regiment advance for the purpose of reinforcing our men, retired from the field. The enemy sheltered himself behind a pine thicket, and from which he could not be dislodged by the men opposing him. Gen. Marshall ordered Col. Trigg to reinforce Williams and Moore, and to drive the enemy from the pine thicket. Col. Trigg at once marched his Regiment to the top of the mountain, and selected the "Montgomery 7th" and a company commanded by Capt. Burwell Akers, from Floyd county, and placing them under the command of Capt. James C. Taylor, directed him to perform the bloody job. The enemy, however, abandoned the point before. Capt. Taylor reached it, and gave up the field. Our loss in this engagement summed up as follows: Of Colonel Moore's men, five were killed and six wounded; of Colonel Williams's men, six were killed and seven were wounded. The loss of the enemy could not be less than three hundred. A gentleman has just arrived